Top 200 Latest Africa and World Breaking News and Headlines on 4/25/15

Africa could get a partial vaccine against malaria by October if the final trail by British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline goes to plan and get approved by international regulators. The vaccine, which has been in development for over two deca...

The Public News Hub SABC COO at work despite suspension ruling East Coast Radio 24 April 2015 at 10:09 by Anelisa Kubheka - The SABC says it is business as usual today at the public broadcaster despite a Western Cape High Court ruling th...

Togo Gears Up For Elections: Over 3.5 Million People Registered For Saturday's Vote Togo's President Faure Gnassingbe, unshackled by term limits and facing a divided opposition, looks set to win a third term in Saturday's ele...

Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) in Ghana are having trouble accessing credit from financial institutions, as they have to compete for limited resources with the government and big corporations, says a financial analyst.

It’s pretty common knowledge that you might run into a few bugs while traveling through Africa. Fortunately, many of them are large enough to spot and can be easily avoided, and are perfectly harmless. So to prepare you for what's in sto...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that the president-elect and his vice, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, are committed to executing the party’s signature programmes, which include a Conditional Cash Transfer that pays N5000 –...

[Al Jazeera] Security forces in Guinea have killed a protester and wounded four others, a medical source and witnesses have said, as opposition supporters clashed with police during anti-government rallies.

On the eve of the presidential election in Togo, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is calling on all national stakeholders to recommit themselves to ensuring that the election is conducted in a peaceful, free and transparent m...

iAfrica.com James confident of DA campaign iAfrica.com Outgoing Democratic Alliance (DA) chairperson Wilmot James says he has a good team behind him in his campaign to become the leader of the party. He will go head to head with DA Parli...

Labour leader’s criticism of poor post-war planning after overthrow of Gaddafi supported by leading diplomats Ed Miliband’s claim that David Cameron failed to secure proper post-war planning in Libya was supported on Friday by leading di...

[Al Jazeera] Johannesburg -Hoisting banners and singing songs of peace, thousands of South Africans have marched through the streets of Johannesburg to show their support for foreign nationals after a spate of anti-immigrant violence acr...

For the first time since the start of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, thousands of health workers are fanning out across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone in nationwide immunization campaigns with an aim to protect three million childr...

Some groups around Africa say boycotts are not enough. They want eye-for-an-eye retaliation. Others are being slower to judge. It's impossible to underestimate how much the rest of Africa is turning against South Africa, said an entrepre...

In the world’s most censored country, citizens face a stark choice – live in misery or risk death by leaving. But it has no western allies so the situation goes unreported Horror has been expressed at the latest catastrophe in the Medite...

Niamey – Parents cradling sick children in their arms streamed into a treatment centre in Niger’s capital Niamey, the victims of a meningitis epidemic that has claimed over 100 lives and appears to be accelerating. The impact...

Suleiman Hashimu who walked from Lagos to Abuja (736.6 km) for 18 days to commemorate the victory of Muhammadu Buhari at Nigeria’s presidential election, has finally met the president-elect. He arrived Abuja four days ago and was w...

The Public News Hub Israeli Foreign Minister Fires Back Over Nzimande Visa The Public News Hub Minister of Higher Education and Training, Blade Nzimande, who was denied a visa to visit Israel. Image: Gallo Images. The Israeli government ...

BizNews 'Heaven couldn't wait to see her' – tributes pour in for slain Jayde Panayiotou BizNews I have been privileged in the sense that I have received outstanding education throughout the years – right from Mondeor Primary ...

[AfricaFocus] "Finally, one word about 'foreigners' and 'migrants'. No African is a foreigner in Africa! No African is a migrant in Africa! Africa is where we all belong, notwithstanding the foolishness of our boundaries. No amount of na...

News24 Zuma: Majority of South Africans not xenophobic News24 Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma has acknowledged that the recent attacks on foreign nationals was not a first time occurrence but reassured organisations representing them tha...

"Tragic developments" was the apt description by the European Commission of what may prove to be the largest maritime disaster the Mediterranean has seen. But while European officials have been quick with sympathetic words following the ...

There are indications that the Peoples Democratic Party is scheming to assume control of the National Assembly following the failure of the All Progressives Congress leaders to agree on zoning of offices. Saturday PUNCH gathered on Frida...

Peacekeepers with the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) have repelled two attacks by unidentified armed men in Kass, 85 kilometres north-west of Nyala, the capital of South Darfur.

South Africa: Troops Deployed To Contain Xenophobic Violence South Africa is heading into a three-day weekend. On Monday it marks Freedom Day - the 21st anniversary of its first democratic elections. After weeks of xenophobic trouble, ma...

The Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria on Friday threatened to stop the importation of petroleum products over yet-to-be-paid N256 billion subsidy claim by the Federal Government. The Executive Secretary of MOMAN, Obafemi Olawore...

Morocco has approved two bills allowing its citizens to challenge decisions made by the government and its institutions and to propose new laws, the government spokesperson said yesterday. Morocco's Minister of Communication and governme...

Pretoria – Several representatives of immigrants on Friday requested President Jacob Zuma to intervene in efforts to regularise their stay and be integrated in the diverse South African community. Zuma spent five hours in a meeting...

Militants in South Sudan have handed over to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) a final group of 283 children in what the agency described as “a small piece of good news in what is otherwise a terrible situation for chil...

[This Day] Abuja -Apparently to discuss the smooth hand-over of government on May 29, President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday met behind closed doors with the president-elect, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd).

Captain Accused in Migrant Boat Disaster Appears In Italian Court The presumed captain of a migrant boat that sank off Libya with the loss of more than 700 lives has appeared before an Italian judge after prosecutors asked that he be cha...

Blantyre – South African-owned shops in Malawi have remained closed after calls for a boycott from activists angered at recent xenophobic attacks. In the commercial capital Blantyre, armed police guarded several leading South Afric...

People Magazine Bruce Jenner comes out as transgender, says 'I am a woman' Washington Post NEW YORK — In the 1970s, Bruce Jenner was a symbol of American masculinity as an Olympic champion. Nearly 40 years later, in an extraordin...

0 Kenya's top anti-corruption officials have been suspended after a standoff with Parliament. MPs voted to sanction the chairman and deputy chairwoman of Kenya's Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) after they released a report a...

Men make up an estimated 96 percent of the Bitcoin community, and the gender gap is a bigger problem than Bitcoiners realize, Felix Salmon writes in an opinion piece in Fusion. Unless and until women can be brought into the Bitcoin fold,...

[Malawi24] Despite a highly taken whistle blow for Malawians to join Consumer Association of Malawi ( CAMA) boycotting South African owned shops and products, there was scanty turn up of people in the commercial city of Blantyre.

Observers note that the theme of this year’s World Malaria Day, “ Invest in the future. Defeat malaria’’, is full of messages, while the messages are full of expectations. Around 3.2 billion people are at risk of malaria, a disease that ...

THE exploits Chairman Kim Jong Il (1942-2011) of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea performed in thwarting the imperialists’ moves of aggression, high-handedness and arbitrariness that prevailed on earth and defending peace and se...

THE Democratic People’s Republic of Korea marks the 83rd anniversary of the founding of the Korean People’s Army. President Kim Il Sung, the founding father of socialist Korea, began his Songun-based revolutionary leadership by org...

Indonesia has asked foreign embassies to send representatives to a maximum security prison ahead of the expected execution of 10 drug convicts, although an official 72-hour notice of execution has not been given yet.

[Swazi Media] After spending three days in police cells, two High Court judges and the Registrar of the High Court were granted E50,000 (US$5,000) bail each on Thursday (23 April 2015), in the latest move in Swaziland's ongoing judicial ...

The presidents of Russia and France have joined other leaders at ceremonies commemorating the massacre 100 years ago of 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks, an event which remains a diplomatic sore point for both sides.

A Colorado woman has been arrested for giving a marijuana-laced brownie to her teenage son who ate the confection and suffered serious injuries when he later jumped out of a third-story apartment window.

Armenians on Friday marked the centenary of the massacre of up to 1.5 million of their people by Ottoman forces as tensions mounted over Turkey's refusal to recognise the killings as genocide. In the capital Yerevan, Armenian President S...

Cypriot Defense Minister Christoforos Fokaidis has arrived at Cairo airport on Thursday evening with a delegation to discuss issues of mutual interest. The visit comes a few days before President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi flies to Cypr...

Following the N1.2 billion debt owed the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) by Arik Air, the Association of Air Transport Association of Nigeria (ATTSAN) and the National Union of Air Transport Employers (NUATE), on Thursday gr...

Having created history by becoming the first Indian footballer to have played in a competitive match for a top division European side, goalkeeper Gurpreet Singh Sandhu expressed gladness at achieving ...

CAIRO: A man was killed and a child wounded following three roadside bomb explosions in Cairo’s district of Ain Shams Friday, Al-Ahram reported. Police cordoned off the site of the explosions while security sources said a fourth bomb was...

Enugu State House of Assembly on Thursday directed the state Accountant-General, Mr. Paschal Okolie, to submit a detailed report to the House on income and expenditure of the state from January last year to date for necessary scrutiny. T...

Ocean assets such as fisheries, shipping lanes and tourism are worth $24 trillion and produce an annual value of $2.5 trillion from their outputs, says a latest report by the conservation group World ...

The National Council on Privatisation (NCP) has approved the Financial Bid Opening for transaction advisers for the partial privatization of the three Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) in the country. They are the Bank of Agricultu...

The United Nations refugee agency has praised the European Union's plans to triple its funding for maritime search-and-rescue operations in the Mediterranean, but said the key issue to refugee safety ...

Actor Shakti Kapoor received a special gift from his daughter actress Shraddha Kapoor -- a coffee mug with the caption "Release go go" -- as a tribute to his 'Crime Master Go Go' character from the ...

CAIRO: Egyptian adventurer Omar Samra has made it to the North Pole Tuesday, becoming the first Egyptian and one of 40 people to successfully accomplish the “Explorer’s Grand Slam” challenge, which include climbing the highest mountain ...

2 of 23 Niger soldiers patrol Malam Fatori on April 3, 2015, after the town in north-eastern Nigeria was retaken from Boko Haram (AFP Photo) gerian troops were forced to retreat from Boko Haram 8217;s Sambisa Forest stronghold in the res...

This particular article was written by TATTLES back in April 2014. And seeing that Psquare are in the news again regarding their purported break up, TATTLES decided to share this article again. Over the last week, the media has been abuz...

Seeking to ease U.S.-Israeli tensions, Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday promised Israel delivery of top-flight fighter jets next year to maintain its military edge and vowed that any final nuclear deal with Iran would ens...

Euro zone finance ministers warned Greece on Friday that its leftist government will get no more aid until it agrees a complete economic reform plan, as Athens lurches closer to bankruptcy. Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis ...

Police arrested two people on a fifth day of street protests in Baltimore over the death of an African American man in police custody that has yet to be fully explained. More than 200 protesters rallied mid-afternoon outside Baltimore ...

Assistant Foreign Minister for Cultural Relations Olfat Farah said France is returning to Egypt 235 historical artifacts that have been seized by the Charles de Gaulle International Airport customs authorities. The director of the...

Indian-origin Prakash Vijayanath has been nominated for the Badminton World Federation (BWF) Athletes' Commission. The South African will be vying for the two available spots against Shintaro Ikeda ...

CAIRO: The spokesperson for the Holding Company for Water and Wastewater Mohy el-Serafy denied drinking water caused the poisoning of 141 Sharqiah residents who were transferred to hospitals Friday morning. The Ministry of Health has con...

WASHINGTON: The United States and its allies conducted 15 air strikes since early on Thursday targeting Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq, the Combined Joint Task Force leading the operation said on Friday. Eleven air strikes in ...

The technical committee of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) meets at the end of each season to hear out coaches and captains of Ranji Trophy teams on the ills of domestic cricket. A ...

CAIRO: Minister of Defense Sedqi Sobhi arrived in Beijing Friday to discuss with Chinese officials means of boosting cooperation between both countries, MENA reported. The visit will include high-level discussions that aim to foster mili...

Italian police were arresting 18 people on Friday suspected of belonging to an armed group linked to al Qaeda who were plotting attacks on the Vatican as well as in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Some of the suspects, who are all Pakis...

Ever heard of a five-inch-long shark? That's a very rare species discovered recently -- and if you ever spotted one, you'd only be the third person to ever do so. The common name of this species is ...

Armenian President Serge Sarkisian thanked world leaders who attended a memorial service for the victims of a mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks 100 years ago. Speaking under cloudy skies at ...

Armenians worldwide will mark the centenary of an Ottoman massacre of up to 1.5 million of their people on Friday, as tensions over Turkey's refusal to recognise the killings as genocide reach boiling point. In a procession to a hill...

UN General Assembly President Sam Kahamba Kutesa says there is "greater appetite" among member nations for reforming the Security Council, a process in which India is heavily invested, and he expects ...

April 22, 2015 (WAU) – A South Sudanese political party has strongly condemned last week's arrest by the army of Benjamin Madol, a renowned Catholic priest working at Rumbek diocese on South Sudan's Lakes state. “The party would like to ...

At least two of the more prominent dailies of Somaliland and their website pages- Jamhuuriya and Somalilandtoday – published related stories accusing the current chairman of Waddani opposition party, also the House Speaker of the Somalil...

Eldoret Circumcision Mystery NGO forces County Government News that some children from the Sudannese community had been circumcised illegally allegedly by an Eldoret based NGO , continues to generate debate and now the Sudannese communit...

Two businessmen charged with the Anglo Leasing scam in which the government lost Sh8 billion can now travel out of the country to attend to family and business matters after a Nairobi court ordered them to be given their passports pendin...

April 23, 2015 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir rejected the recent criticism by Troika member states (US, UK and Norway) of the conduct of the elections which took place last week. The statement issued by the Tr...

CHADEMA youth in Zanzibar have opted to celebrate the 51st anniversary of the Union by cleaning the environment and paid a courtesy-call to the elderly and orphans at their centres, while calling for strengthening of the union.

President Uhuru Kenyatta was last night forced to cancel his business trip to Los Angeles, United States of America, after a routing blunder of his trip nearly sent his military jet to the raging war zone on the skies over Yemen.

Violence has hit Baringo County for the last one week with raiders from rival communities reportedly resorting to strangling and stabbing their victims, a new wave of attack which has gotten the government flat-footed.

While it is only Museveni who had publicly told the story of this incident in his book, after 42 years last week, Saturday Monitor met a man who witnessed the events of that day. He recounts how Museveni burst out of the house running fr...

April 24, 2015 (NYALA) – The joint peacekeeping mission in Darfur (UNAMID) sent military enforcement on Friday to its camp in Kass, 86 kilometers west of South Darfur state capital of Nyala to protect it against militiamen seeking reveng...

AS government plans strategies to reduce road accidents in the country, a private company, Transevents Marketing Limited has launched a nationwide campaign aimed at encouraging safe driving among drivers in the country.

African migrants drown: Ask your questions LIVE TODAY at 09:00GMT to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) The International Organization for Migration (IOM) will host an online press conference TODAY at 09:00GMT ...

Food Friday April 24 2015 South Africa In 1996, the first genetically modified seed was planted in the United States. Today, 3.7 billion acres of land around the world are under genetically modified crop, with the U.S being the... From: ...

THE Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Mr Bernard Membe, has urged the local business community to make use of the rising business and investment opportunities in the Comoros brought about by reinforced bilateral...

April 24, 2015 (JUBA) - The South Sudanese government is due to send a high level delegation to contain clashes that occured in its Upper Nile state capital this week. Fighting erupted on Tuesday night and resumed Thursday in what pitted...

Nearly 15,000 Burundians have fled into Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo since mid-March, United Nations and Rwandan officials said on Friday, amid growing fears of violence in the run-up to a presidential election on June 26.

April 24, 2015 (KHARTOUM) - The rebel Sudan Liberation Movement led by Minni Minnawi (SLM-MM) has called on the international community to not recognise the results of the presidential and parliamentary elections. The opposition Sudan Ca...

The Masindi District vice chairperson, Mr Kanaginagi Ateenyi, has urged the government to put in place minimum education qualifications for political leaders at local government level to avoid being undermined by the technical personnel

The military court has set May 4 to deliver the verdict on Brig Michael Ondoga and Lt Col Sam Kirya, who have been on trial on charges of neglecting their duties during the peace-keeping operations in Somalia

Preparations for the oncoming beatification of Sister Irene 'Nyaatha' Stefani have kicked off in earnest in Nyeri County, with a committee appointed to plan the event touring Gikondi and Mukurweini areas last Thursday.

Women's Volleyball team qualifies for 2015 African Games. The National Women's Volleyball has qualified for the 2015 All Africa Games, with a match to spare, at the Zone Five qualifiers in Kampala, Uganda. For more news visit htt...